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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday deflected harsh Republican criticism of her handling of the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, and urged her questioners in Congress to put U.S. national security ahead of politics.
At a sometimes bitter day-long hearing, Republicans accused the front-runner in the 2016 Democratic presidential race of misinforming the public about the cause of the attack by suspected Islamic militants that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi.
Clinton, 67, calmly avoided the fray during the most heated exchanges between Republicans and her Democratic allies, and stayed composed under sometimes hostile and aggressive questions from Republican lawmakers.
But hours of questioning uncovered no new revelations in a deadly incident that has been the subject of a half-dozen other congressional investigations and an independent inquiry.
I've lost more sleep than all of you put together."
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to be on Capitol Hill Wednesday, to give long-awaited testimony about State Department security and the attack that left four Americans dead in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton, who had to postpone testimony because of health issues, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at 9 a.m. and the House Foreign Affairs Committee at 2 p.m. Wednesday. She will be the only person giving testimony in the hearing called, "Terrorist Attack in Benghazi: The Secretary of State's View."
More than four months have passed since an act of terrorism killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Libya. Clinton was expected to testify about a report on security failures in Benghazi in December, but first a concussion and then a blood clot near her brain kept the out-going secretary of state away from Capitol Hill.
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President Barack Obama personally apologized to his Guatemalan counterpart for a US-led study conducted in the 1940s, in which hundreds of people in the Latin American state were deliberately infected with sexually-transmitted diseases.
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LIMA - (VNS) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she takes the blame for any shortcomings in the handling of an attack last month on the US mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
"I take responsibility," she said, according to the news networks CNN and Fox, which interviewed her during a visit to the Peruvian capital Lima.
"I'm in charge of the State Department - 60,000 plus people all over the world, 275 posts," she said, in a brief excerpt of the CNN interview, in which she absolved President Barack Obama from blame. … [Read more...] about Clinton takes responsibility for handling of Libya attack

VietNamNet would like to introduce the talks of Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh at the Council for Foreign Relations (CFR), a leading think tank and publisher in the US.Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.
Bob Woodruff: Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Bob Woodruff.
As you know, who's going to be speaking today is Pham Binh Minh, the foreign minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. And he will have a chance to give a statement up here, probably for about 10 minutes or so, followed by some questioning that we will do together up here and then followed by any questions that you can make as well.
I just have a couple notes before we start, is that the - if you could, please, you know, turn off your cellphones. Of course, use them in vibration, that's fine. Also, remember: This is going to be on the record. You can see there's cameras back there. So just be very careful about what you say.
And I just want to introduce Foreign Minister Mr. Minh.
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